Pondering the publishing gimmicks of my childhood:
Pop-Ups (sometimes with bonus sliding/rotating)
Scratch and Sniff
Red-filter secrets
"Invisible ink"
Flexidiscs
3D w/paper glasses
There were others, but those I actually enjoyed. Some, I was not the target audience for (like "panels of fur for some goddamn reason").
My only nostalgic pang is realizing the flexidisc is the most deaddy deadest, because only hipsters and hardcore collectors have phonographs anymore. 😮
@SJohnRoss new hipsters are born each day :) vinyl is making some sort of comeback, sales have gone up 10% to $1.4 billion in 2023, and outsold CDs for the second time since 1987. amazingly, there are actually new Flexi Discs manufactured as singles
Join us for the 2nd Retro Gaming Buy/Sell/Trade Event in Slovenia on Saturday, June 15th! This garage sale/flea market-style event will be held in front of the museum.
I don't have any real retro games I want to play enough to say get a hold of an emulator; I fully admit most games I played 10 hours a day in my youth (the 1980s) were shit. The oldest games might actually fancy to play still functions on Steam.
Of course there were good ones like Arkanoid, Uridium, Balder Dash, Tetris and a bit later Defender of the Crown and a few others, but most were played because they were the only game in town.
@thomasbeagle tho is it really nostalgia unless you have to try to load the game 5 times while correcting the head in the cassette player until it loads...
Even though there's more than a million and one ways to paint, I'd like to share some insight into my process while making this Vaporwave Angel... (see Insta post)
We've all heard "My Dad had one of those" about cars.
I want to know what your Mum had as her car to get about. Wherever you are in the world, whatever time period. What vehicle did your Mum (or other maternal guardian) cherish and use and wax lyrical about?
I might be planning a little project...
My Mum had a moped, a Honda Cub I think (I'll have to dig out a photo), that was her freedom in the 70s.
@nyrath@vulgalour
My buddy's mom had a relative of the Olds Vista Cruiser - the Chevy Caprice Classic Wagon. I used to walk with him on his paper run, but sometimes when the weather was terrible (and this is Canada so you can imagine it had to be pretty awful), his mom would drive us slowly around the neighbourhood while we sat on the tailgate and threw papers roughly where they belonged. Good times...
You know one reason Pete might be aggressive and assertive is that his family is the only cat family in a whole city with millions of dogs. He's making himself look big, so to speak.
If you remember a time when using floppy disks didn’t seem weird, you’re probably at least 30 years old. Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data.
However, it’s now been over a decade since the last floppy disc was made, and it wouldn’t even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture. So why do some people still love using them? BBC Future speaks to some of the floppy disk faithful to find out.
🛠️🍏 Next week, our volunteer Andrés will begin assembling a museum replica of the Apple I computer. It's an "open lab," so feel free to get hands-on, as it will take place in the classroom on the 1st floor. All are welcome!